Sunday 25 March 2012 |
Day 0: Registration and Reception
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| 16:00 | Registration opens |
| 16:30-17:30 | Young participants networking event |
| 17:45 | Lecture: Environment and development challenges: The imperative to act
Sir Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor Department of Environment and Rural Affairs and Professor, University of East Anglia, UK, on behalf of the Blue Planet Laureates. |
| 18:00 | Welcome reception supported by the Asahi Glass Foundation, awarders of the Blue Planet Prize
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| 20:00 | End of reception – registration closes |
Monday 26 March 2012 |
| Day 1: State of the Planet |
08:30 | Arrival
Opening Ceremony |
| 09:00 | Welcome from conference Chief Scientific Advisor Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate 2009 Economic Sciences, Indiana University, USA |
| | Welcome from the hosts of the conference Lord Martin Rees, Past President, the Royal Society, UK |
| | Co-Chairs’ conference vision and declaraion Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia |
| | United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Georgios Kostakos, Acting Deputy Executive Secretary, High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, United Nations |
| | The voice of youth Planet under pressure UK youth voice project with support from the British Science Association, Research Councils UK, Sciencewise-ERC and The Royal Society |
| Plenary presentations Planet under pressure |
| 09:50 | Drivers of global environmental change
Diana Liverman, Professor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, USA and co-chair Future Earth Transition Team |
| 10:10 | State of the Planet: biogeophysical and climate
Will Steffen, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Australia |
| 10:30 | Refreshment break |
| 11:00 | State of the Planet: ecosystems
Sandra Diaz, Professor, Córdoba National University, Argentina |
| 11:20 | State of humanity: economic and political challenges
Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, UK |
| 11:40 | Panel discussion: The planet in 2050 Sir John Beddington, UK Chief Scientific Advisor
Carlos Joly, Biodiversity Senior Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil
Martin Haigh, Senior Energy Advisor, Scenarios Team, Shell
Jill Jaeger, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria
Rowan Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, Global Analytics, Willis Re, UK Moderator: Nisha Pillai |
12:30
13:00 | Lunch and posters
Key event (40 mins): White papers and policy briefs for Rio+20 introduced by ICSU President Yuan-Tseh Lee |
| 14:00 | Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 1 |
| 15:30 | Refreshment breaks |
| 16:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 17:30 | Poster Session 1
Contributions from submitted abstracts
Poster Session drinks reception sponsored by
The Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL
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| 19:30 | End of Day One |
Tuesday 27 March 2012 |
| Day 2: Options and opportunities |
| Plenary presentations Thinking globally: big ideas for a crowded planet |
| 08:30 | Green economic development
Yvo de Boer, Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability, KPMG,The Netherlands and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
| 08:45 | Securing food and water for the world's poorest: time for innovative cooperation
Bina Agarwal, Director and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, India |
| 09:00 | Planetary stewardship: risks, obstacles and opportunities
Georgina Mace, Professor, Imperial College London, UK |
| 09:15 | Panel discussion: Innovative solutions for a planet under pressure Nigel Cameron, President, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, USA
Coleen Vogel, Independent scholar, South Africa
Mohammad Shahbaz, Advisor to the National Centre for Research and Development, Higher Council for Science and Technology, Jordan
Keith Clarke, Director of Sustainability, Atkins, UK
Priya Shyamsundar, Program Director of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
Pamela M. Collins, Doctoral student in palaeobiogeography, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Moderator: Richard Black, BBC |
| 10:00 | Refreshment breaks |
| 10:30 | Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 2 |
| 12:00 | Lunch, key events and posters |
| 14:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 15:30 | Refreshment breaks |
| 16:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 17:30 | Poster Session 2
Contributions from submitted abstracts |
| 17:30 – 19.30 | Unconference |
| 19:30 | End of Day Two |
Wednesday 28 March 2012 |
| Day 3: Challenges to Progress |
| Plenary presentations The role of equality and equity in governance for global sustainability |
| 08:30 | Societal equality and global sustainability
Richard Wilkinson, Professor, University of Nottingham and University College London, UK. |
| 08:45 | Equity and development in the 21st century
Mamphela Ramphele, Executive Chair, Circle Capital Ventures, South Africa and former director, World Bank |
| 09:00 | Global governance 2.0: planetary stewardship
Laurence Tubiana, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, France |
| 09:15 | Panel discussion: governance 2.0 Oran Young, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Gustavo Fonseca, Head of Natural Resources, Global Environment Facility, USA
Daniëla Mariuzzo, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Rabobank International, Brazil
Warren Evans, Senior Adviser, Sustainable Development, World Bank
Yannick Glemarec, Director of Environment Finance at UNDP
Angela Cropper, Special Advisor to the Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Vasna Ramasar, Research Associate, Earth System Governance Project Moderator: Andrew Revkin, New York Times |
| 10:00 | Refreshment breaks |
| 10:30 | Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 3 |
| 12:00 | Lunch, key events and posters |
| 12:30-13:30 | Young Generations's Vision for the Future |
| 14:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 15:30 | Refreshment breaks |
| 16:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 17:30 | Poster Session 3
Contributions from submitted abstracts |
| 19:30 | Dinner reception |
Thursday 29 March 2011 |
| Day 4: Planetary Stewardship |
| 8:30 | Arrival Opening ceremony |
| 9:00 | High-level welcome
David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science
Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO |
| | Conference Declaraion
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and
Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia
Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General (video address) |
| Plenary presentations Welcome to the Anthropocene |
| 09:30 | Towards planetary stewardship: the nature of the challenge
Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Sweden. |
| 09:45 | Interconnected risks and solutions: policy recommendations
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Frank Biermann, Professor, VU University Amsterdam |
| | Rio + 20: Navigating the Anthropocene |
| 10:00 | Future Earth and a new contract between science and society
Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden and co-chair of Future Earth Transition Team |
| 10:15 | High-level responses from policy, major groups and society
Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20 and former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados, Achim Steiner, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, Margit Fischer, President, Austrian Science Center Network and Colin Drummond, Chief Executive of Viridor |
| 10:45 | Open discussion
We invite your questions.
Facilitator: Nisha Pillai |
| 11:15 | Refreshment Break / Press conference |
| Igniting the paradigm shift: a shared vision for the future |
| 11:45 | Reducing economic disparity
Richard Norgaard, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 12:00 | Creating sustainable cities
Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, Japan |
| 12:15 | Panel discussion: delivering governance for global sustainability across scales Carlos dos Santos, Ambassador of Mozambique to UK
Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston and Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability, USA
Henri Djombo, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Forestry, Republic of Congo
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor, European Commission
Patricia Pinho, Research Scientist, Centre for Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Moderator: Oliver Morton, The Economist |
13:00
14:00 | Lunch, key events and posters
Afternoon refreshments |
| 15:00 | Parallel Sessions Click to view sessions and key events for day 4 |
| 16:30 | End of sessions |
| | Plenary closing: Beyond Rio+20 |
| 16:45 | Bridges to the future
Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy, UNESCO and Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO, Australia |
| 16:55 | Vision from youth |
| 17:00 | Awards
Rik Leemans, Wageningen University, Netherlands |
| 17:05 | The way ahead
Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, on behalf of the UNESCO Director-General |
| 17:15 | End of Conference |